Tuning: standard
Asus2 E/G# Bsus4/F# E Asus2
Do you still keep paper flowers in the bottom drawer with your Belgian lace
E/G# C#sus4 C#m
Taking them out every year to watch the colours fade away?
Asus2 E/G# D/F# D
Do you still believe in fairy tales, in battlements of shining castles
C#m B/C# C#m
Safe from the dragons that lie beneath the hill?
Asus2 E/G# Bsus4/F# E
Are you still a Russian princess rescued by a gypsy dancer
Asus2 E/G# C#sus4 C#m
To anyone who'll listen is that a story you still tell?
Asus2 E/G# D/F# D
You live a life of fantasy, your diary romantic fiction
A B/A A B B7
Can't you see it's hard for me, can you see what I am trying to say?
E G#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
A E
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
B/D# C#m /B A
For every one step forward we're taking two steps back
A E/G# Bsus4/F# B
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
C#sus C#m C#sus4 C#m A#sus2 E D D C#sus4 C#m C#sus4 C#m
A/B B
I know you still like old fashioned waltzes
A/B B
Your reflection in the mirror that you flirt with as you glide across the floor
A/C# B/C#
But if I told you the music's over would you want to hear
A/C# B/C#
That your dance card is empty that there's no-one really there?
Asus2 E/G# Bsus4/F#
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, that there's a millionaire
E Asus2 E/G# C#sus4 C#m
Looking for your front door with a key to a life that you'd never understand?
Asus2 E/G# D/F# D
All I have to offer is the love that I have, it's freely given
A B/A A B B7
You'll see its value when you see what I've tried to say
E G#m
It's a gentleman's excuse me so I'll take one step to the side
A E
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
B/D# C#m A
For every one step forward I'm taking two steps back
A E/G# Bsus4/F# B C#m
Can you get it inside your head that from this one step forward
A
There's no turning back?
A E/G# Bsus4/F# B C#sus4 C#m C#sus4 C#m
Can you get it inside your head I'm tired of dancing?
C#sus4 C#m C#sus4 C#m
We're finished dancing